Business News of Thursday, 5 October 2006

Source: GNA

GSE All-Share Index inches up again

Accra, Oct. 5, GNA - The Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE) All-Share Index, the main benchmark, inched up again on marginal gains by three equities.

The Index increased by 0.33 points at 4,944.46 points from 4,944.13 points.

Change for the year also inched up at 3.68 per cent. Traded shares, however, ended lower at 367,200 shares from 1,223,500 on Wednesday.

On the broader market there were three price changes 96 all gains. ECOBANK gained three cedis at 12,134 cedis, Fan Milk Limited was 71 cedis better at 16,231 cedis and Standard Chartered Bank gained one cedi at 150,021 cedis.

Market Capitalisation was better at 111,405.20 cedis from 111,403.29 billion cedis.

The following are the last prices of the listed equities in cedis:

ABL 1,150 AGA 300,000 ALW 7,010 AYRTN 905 BAT 3,160 BOPP 5,500 CAL 1,800 CFAO 399 CLYD 800 CMLT 1,700 CPC 538

EBG 12,134 +3

EIC 8,502 ETI 22,707

FML 16,231 +71

GCB 6,150 GGBL 9,253 GWEB 550 HFC 5,400 MLC 2,500 PAF 800 PBC 2,800 PZ 6,611

SCB 150,021 +1

SPL 550 SPPC 300 SG-SSB 6,000 SWL 265 TBL 27,000 TOTAL 54,006 UNIL 15,000